Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

Amazon • Seattle, WA

22h • $159,300 - $202,400 • Onsite

About The Position

The Corporate Services Security (CPSS) Seals ( Security for Employee and Legal Systems) Team is responsible for securing the applications, infrastructure and data developed across People eXperience and Technology (PXT) and Legal teams. We partner with builder teams to minimize security risks across their applications while being a business enabler. Our team provides end-to-end security partnership across the software development lifecycle. We offer expert security consultations and guidance on best practices and implementation strategies, conduct application security reviews and threat modeling to comprehensively assess new features and applications, and drive security architecture decisions through design reviews and architectural guidance to build security in from the start. We support issue remediation by helping teams address security findings, vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps, and manage the security backlog by prioritizing and tracking security improvements and technical debt. We also support compliance and security standards questions to help teams meet organizational policies and industry requirements, and enable security tooling and automation by integrating security tools directly into development workflow. As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services using GenAI. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

Requirements

• 3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
• 3+ years of scripting, programming, or security code review in a common language, such as Python, Java or C++ experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship) experience
• Knowledge of industry-based security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Conduct design and security reviews to assess customer risk, prioritize remediation, and partner with service teams on resolution
• Escalate security issues with clear recommendations to senior leadership, keeping customer impact front and center
• Build and improve internal security tooling to increase efficiency across the global engineering organization
• Create, update, and maintain threat models across a wide variety of software projects
• Perform manual and automated secure code review, primarily in Java, Python, and JavaScript
• Develop security automation tools and apply adversarial analysis techniques to augment manual effort
• Deliver security training and architecture guidance to internal development teams
• Independently solve complex, systemic security problems requiring novel approaches
• Influence team and partner priorities using data to drive measurable security outcomes
• Communicate technical and strategic security guidance clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders
• Promote security culture across the company through strong cross-functional relationships

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level